delight vs ridicule

delight

noun
  • Joy; pleasure. 

  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure. 

verb
  • To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. 

  • To have or take great pleasure. 

ridicule

noun
  • An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock. 

  • The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. 

  • derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour 

  • A small woman's handbag; a reticule. 

verb
  • to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of 

How often have the words delight and ridicule occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )